Public Enemy Sounds Off On The Use Of “Fight The Power” At The Oscars
According to TMZ, Public Enemy isn’t too keen on The Academy using their legendary protest song “Fight The Power” as Chris Rock’s intro music.
Group member Professor Griff tells us he thinks the Academy was just paying lip service to black protesters and will go right back to business as usual.
Griff says Public Enemy is all about change — radical change — and the Academy’s efforts fly in the face of that. He adds, “The show can’t claim the blackness of Public Enemy’s message.”
Chuck D also weighed in with a series of tweets, but he doesn’t seem quite as upset about it as Griff…
However, he did add…
Sadly, Public Enemy doesn’t even own the rights to license their song, so there’s nothing they can really do about it anyway.
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